Tailor s iron



(No Model.)

'J. B. DIETZ.

I TAILORS mom No. 268,465 Patented Dec. 5, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

JOHN B. DIETZ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TAILORS IRON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 268,465, dated December 5, 1882. Application filed August 31, 1882. a (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. DIErz, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Tailors Irons,of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed to improve and render more convenient the irons employed by tailors and others for sponging cloth; and the invention consists in constructing the same in the form ofa smooth cylindrical roller, (preferably with a detachable handle and removable heating-core,) as hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation or face view of my improved implement; Fig. 2, a longitudinal central section through the same, and Fig. 3 an end view. t

The irons commonly employed for sponging cloth are heavy and unwieldy, requiring considerable strength to properly handle them,

and being necessarily slow in use.

My invention is designed to overcome these objections; andwith this object in view it consists in constructingthe iron or implement in the form of a roller, whereby it can be readily and easily moved over the cloth to be sponged,

and the work accomplished in far less time than heretofore.

Referring again to the drawings, A represents the iron or implement as a whole, consisting of a smooth cylinder or roll, a, preferably of metal, but which may be of any suitable material capable of being finished sufficiently smooth, and'of being subjected to heat without injury, and a handle, b, preferably made detachable, in order that the roll or cylinder may be placed upon a stove or heater, or its end exposed and opened to receive a heating-core, c, with which it willpreferably be furnished, the core alone being subjected to the heat of a stove or heater, and placed within the roller or cylinder 0 to impart heat thereto. This feature is common in fluting machines, and is not in itself claimed by me.

The roll or cylinder ct is formed with journals d and e,- or if the core 0 be used, thejournal e is formed upon its outer end, or upon a cap fitting upon the end of the cylinder, as may be preferred. In Fig. 1 the journals are represented as being both formed upon the cylinder a, while in Fig. 2 one is represented as being formed upon said cylinder and the other upon the core.

The handle b is made in substantially the usual form given to handles of .irons of the class used by tailors--that is to say, it is in the form of a bail with a wooden portion to be grasped in the hand. Both ends or arms of the handle are perforated, as at f, to receive the journals d and e, and one arm, 9, is hinged to swing outward off the journal (apermitting the journal d to be withdrawn from the other arm when it is desired to remove the handle from the roll.

The hingedarm'g is normally hield inplace upon the journal 0 by a button or nut, 11, swiveled or screwed upon arod or bolt, 6, extending from arm j and projecting through a hole or opening in the arm g. When a button is employed instead of a out the hole should be large enough to permit the button to pass through it when turned to an upright position, but of such shape as to prevent the button from passing through when in any other position.

In practice Lprefer to employ the removable core 0; but this is not essential. The handle will be the same in either case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is---- in combination with smooth roll or cylinder a, the detachable handle 0, having hinged arm g, rod or bolt i, and button It, all arranged as shown.

JOHN B. nin'rz.

Witnesses:

FELIX R. SULLIVAN, FRANK. SULLIVAN. 

